This. I trust. will be the spirit in which this question will be disposed of by the House. In spite of all the outcry against immigration. it is nevertheless a factand I call special attention to this revelation of the latest statistics on the subjectthat our natural increase of population. plus immigration. makes a combined total rate of increase smaller than that of nearly every European country without immigration. France. where the national legislature has put a premium on fecundity. is of course one of the countries excepted from the list of comparisons. The large European cities. too. have increased more rapidly in the last ten years than our great American centers of population. The fact that those countries are prospering. nevertheless. seems to be conclusive evidence that immigration after all is not the cause of our troubles. Moreover. the latest annual report of the CommissionerGeneral of Immigration shows that there are almost as many people leaving the country as are coming. so that the whole problem seems to be solving itself.
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